Testing the Apple Intelligence beta shows the prerelease software still has a long way to go, with hallucinations, marking scam emails as priority, and more
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An investigation finds Google Maps isn't proactively deleting location data consistently when users visit abortion clinics, after Google pledged to in July 2022
Geoffrey A. Fowler / Washington Post : LinkedIn: Zach Praiss and Heidi Saas Tweets: @snowjake , @abortionfront , @alphabetworkers , @biancarecto , @washingtonpost , @washingtonpost , and @washingtonp...
Tweetbot, Twitterrific, Fenix, Talon, and other third-party Twitter apps are broken; Twitter has given no explanation and developers say they haven't heard back
Last night at about 7:30pm PST, Twitterrific customers started … Chance Miller / 9to5Mac : Tweetbot and other Twitter apps still broken as Elon Musk stays silent Mitchell Clark / The Verge : Twitter a...
Shadowbanning is real and social media platforms should be more transparent; a survey shows nearly one in 10 US social media users report being shadowbanned
and who it really hurts. … Will Oremus / @willoremus@mastodon.social : Another reason to appreciate Mastodon: no shadowbanning. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... Tweets: Dave Lee / @daveleeft : @Wil...
Pixalate study: of the 1,000 most popular apps used by children, 67% in Apple's App Store and 76% in the Google Play Store send the ad industry location data
Geoffrey A. Fowler / Washington Post : Tweets: @sub8u , @geoffreyfowler , @gregbensinger , @emma_leik , and @senmarkey Tweets: @sub8u : The smartphone is the modern parent's greatest friend. And scar...
Pixalate study: of the 1,000 most popular apps used by children, 67% in Apple's App Store and 76% in the Google Play Store send the ad industry location data
Apple and Google just look the other way. Here's how we stop it. — Imagine if a stranger parked in front of a child's bedroom window to peep inside. Tweets: @geoffreyfowler , @gregbensinger , @emma...
Rather than expecting users to read and consent to overwhelming privacy policies, laws and tech can help give them real privacy choices
This Washington Post article by Geoffrey Fowler about privacy policies caught my eye. Tweets: Ben Oberkfell / @benlikestocode : 2002: some jerk on the Something Awful Forums replies “too long; didn't ...
Rather than expecting users to read and consent to overwhelming privacy policies, laws and tech can help give them real privacy choices
Let's abolish reading privacy policies. Here's how we can use the law and technology to give us real privacy choices. Tweets: @oldenoughtosay , @geoffreyfowler , @geoffreyfowler , @washingtonpost , @...
Congressional staffers say Apple is among companies trying to weaken a bill that would hold US companies accountable for using Uighur forced labor in China
so we need stronger laws to hold companies accountable. Let's bring as much of this as possible into the light. Same with environmental practices. It's not enough to say, well, Apple is a bit better. ...
A look at Facebook Groups, used by two thirds of Facebook's MAUs and a company focus since 2017, which make leaving the platform especially difficult
Facebook invested heavily in the one feature it knew people couldn't leave behind: Their groups — Before the pandemic, Andrea Norrington barely checked Facebook. Tweets: @geoffreyfowler , @kcpike , ...